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Liuolienė, Alvyda, and Regina Metiūnienė. "Legal English and Adapted Legal Texts." Santalka 20, no. 1 (2012): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cpe.2012.06.

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Stepanova, Valentina V. "Translation Strategies of Legal Texts (English-Russian)." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 237 (February 2017): 1329–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.218.

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Ahmed Hayder Sigar, Dr. "Problems of Translating Kurdish Legal Texts into English." لارك 2, no. 50 (2023): 956–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/lark.vol2.iss50.3198.

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The problems involved in the translation of legal texts have grabbed the attention of many translators, linguists and researchers. These problems seem common in general but the level of difficulty seems to change according to certain factors. The current study aims at providing available definitions of legal translation, introducing legal language and its linguistic characteristics. In addition, it attempts to identify the best techniques and methods employed by professional legal translators and explore these methods and techniques in the selected samples and see how their effectiveness

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Jabak, Omar Osman. "Contrastive Analysis of Arabic-English Translation of Legal Texts." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 13, no. 2 (2022): 299–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1302.09.

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The present study aims to provide a contrastive analysis of Arabic-English translation of ten legal texts with an eye to evaluating the accuracy of the translation. The researcher collected the data from El-Farahaty’s (2015) Arabic–English–Arabic Legal Translation. A contrastive analysis was developed to assess the accuracy of the translation of the legal texts selected. The examination of the source legal texts and the translations provided either by the authoress of the book herself or the sources from which she collected them revealed serious errors such as overtranslation, omission of tran

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Sofyan, Rudy, and Rusdi Noor Rosa. "Problems and Strategies in Translating Legal Texts." Humanus 20, no. 2 (2021): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/humanus.v20i2.112233.

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Translating legal texts is considered as the most difficult translation task as it needs accurate and correct translation, and even minor errors can result in lawsuits and legal exposure. This paper aims at finding out the translation problems and formulating the strategies best applicable in translating legal texts from bahasa Indonesia into English. This is a descriptive study using a document analysis as the method. The data were 15 legal texts having been translated from bahasa Indonesia into English by semi-professional translators. In analysing the data, the document analysis was carried

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Chan, Clara Ho-yan, and Marcus Galdia. "Problems in English-Chinese and Chinese-English legal translation: with a case study of mistranslations." Comparative Legilinguistics 55 (September 20, 2023): 118–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/cl.55.2023.8.

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In this article, characteristic features of the Chinese legal language are approached from the perspective of legal translation from and into Chinese. The main focus is put upon the emergence of meaning in legal texts, which is reflected in the process of legal translation. Problems of meaning emergence in the Chinese law are regularly connected to legal transfers and legal implants borrowed from foreign languages such as English as well as other text forming devices. Translation is regularly inherent in such processes. As a result, legal translation influences processes in which legislation a

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Ana, I. Wayan, and Ida Ayu Made Puspani. "Techniques of Translating Indonesian Legal Texts into English." e-Journal of Linguistics 15, no. 2 (2021): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/e-jl.2021.v15.i02.p09.

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Translation techniques are skills, practical arts or procedures used by translators in their translation activities. Translation techniques are applied to assist translators to select the most precise and accurate equivalents in Target Language (TL). This study was carried out to find the techniques used by legal translators in translating legal text. The data for this study were taken from Law No. 25 of 2007 and four notary deeds and two non-notary deeds. The data were qualitatively analyzed based on the theory of translation procedures by Newmark (1988). The result of this study showed that

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Loginova, L., and O. Ivanischenko. "PARTICULARS OF TRANSLATION OF LEGAL TEXTS IN ENGLISH." International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology 2, no. 49 (2021): 162–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32841/2409-1154.2021.49-2.37.

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Vázquez y del Árbol, Esther. "(De)Gendering (English-Spanish) Translation of Legal Texts." Lebende Sprachen 69, no. 1 (2024): 139–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/les-2023-0026.

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Abstract Within Western culture, gender is frequently interpreted in terms of binarism (male versus female), derived from biological sex at birth. Nevertheless, there is an accelerating percentage of non-binary and transgender people, who are not related to binary nomenclature, and they also need to resort to legal documentation and their renderings into other languages. This fact becomes a troublesome issue that must be nowadays solved, especially when translating into Spanish, a grammatical gender language, from English, a non-grammatical gender language. In this paper we will first select a

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Bahora RAXMATOVA,. "TRANSLATION PROBLEMS OF ENGLISH LEGAL DISCOURSE." UzMU xabarlari 1, no. 1.4 (2024): 345–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.69617/uzmu.v1i1.4.2100.

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When dealing with legal texts, it is necessary to take into account not only the typical basic features of Uzbek and British legal arguments, but also the existing differences in the legal systems of each country. When translating from one language to another, it is important to properly convey the content of legal documents. In order to identify the typical basic features of English legal vocabulary and to provide a methodology for solving the problems that arise when translating legal texts, the authors study syntactic analysis, lexical analysis, comparative translation and comparative trans

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Bahora RAXMATOVA,. "TRANSLATION PROBLEMS OF ENGLISH LEGAL DISCOURSE." UzMU xabarlari 1, no. 1.4 (2024): 345–48. https://doi.org/10.69617/nuuz.v1i1.4.2100.

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When dealing with legal texts, it is necessary to take into account not only the typical basic features of Uzbek and British legal arguments, but also the existing differences in the legal systems of each country. When translating from one language to another, it is important to properly convey the content of legal documents. In order to identify the typical basic features of English legal vocabulary and to provide a methodology for solving the problems that arise when translating legal texts, the authors study syntactic analysis, lexical analysis, comparative translation and comparative trans

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Олена Георгіївна Шкута. "REPRESANTATION OF STRUCTURALAND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH LEGAL TERMS IN UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE (IN OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL LEGAL TEXTS)." MESSENGER of Kyiv National Linguistic University. Series Philology 20, no. 2 (2022): 147–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2311-0821.2.2017.120867.

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Introduction. The article focuses on the structural and semantic features of the Englishlegal terms in the official texts of international legal texts and suggests the ways of finding theirUkrainian analogues. Purpose. The paper aims to outline the structural and semantic characteristicsof the English legal terms in the official international legal texts. Methods. The methodologyof the paper is based on analytical, comparative and typological, and descriptive analysis usedto identify and classify structural and semantic features of English legal terms and their translatinginto Ukrainian. Compa

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Valentina, V. KOSTOVAROVA. "Plain English in legal communication: the history of formation and features." Service plus 17, no. 2 (2023): 48–57. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8232423.

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The article discusses new linguistic phenomenon in the field of professional communication in the field of law, which got the name of «Plain English». The author examines the historical background of this phenomenon origin establishes the causes of its appearance. The main objective of the article is to determine the linguistic features of professional legal communication in the format of simple English. The article not only discusses the main lexical and grammatical difficulties and ways to simplify them in legal texts, but also explains the reasons for such a transformation. The

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Ding, Lijie. "A Comparative Study on the Quality of English-Chinese Translation of Legal Texts Between ChatGPT and Neural Machine Translation Systems." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 9 (2024): 2823–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1409.18.

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This study conducts a comparative analysis of the quality of English-to-Chinese (E-C) and Chinese-to-English (C-E) translation of legal texts between Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) and four online Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. The analysis includes both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. The results suggest that both ChatGPT and the NMT systems achieve satisfactory performance in translating legal texts from Chinese to English. Although the quality of ChatGPT’s C-E legal translation is slightly lower than that of the NMT systems, the difference is not stat

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Matvieieva, Svitlana. "Критерії відбору та первинна обробка емпіричного матеріалу паралельного корпусу юридичних текстів". Forum Filologiczne Ateneum, № 1(7)2019 (31 грудня 2019): 167–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.36575/2353-2912/1(7)2019.167.

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The article deals with the formation of criteria for the primary selection of legal texts for the English-Ukrainian parallel corpus of legal texts. The author has developed a classification of legal texts on the basis of the style and text genres, taking into account the types of legal acts, and makes an attempt to combine legal and linguistic characteristics applicable to the classification of legal documents. The article proposes the structure of the metadata card for corpus texts (original and translation), which are tested on text samples. The need for metatext data and extra-linguistic in

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HOLOVATSKA, Yuliia, Oksana YAREMA, and Lesia MYKHAILYSHYN. "Functioning of latinisms in english and ukrainian legal texts." Humanities science current issues 3, no. 48 (2022): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24919/2308-4863/48-3-8.

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Zverev, Alexander G. "Linguistic Universals in Legal Texts (English, French, and Russian)." Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates 5, no. 3 (2019): 66–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2411-197x-2019-5-3-66-83.

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This article describes a study of legal texts (in English, French, and Russian) to confirm J. Greenberg’s linguistic universals № 11 and 14. The linguistic universal № 14 refers to the ordering of subject, object, and verb in a conditional clause. Anna Wierzbicka refers the predicate “if” (which forms the conditional) to the number of semantic primitives. The linguistic universal № 11 asserts in declarative sentences with nominal subject and object, the predominant dominant order has the subject followed by the object. This study revises some of the most important provisions set forth by J. Gr

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SAFWAT M. HASHIM, SUHAIR. "Conventional Implicature in English Legal/ Diplomatic Texts: International Conventions." Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature 1, no. 1 (2009): 843–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.37654/aujll.2009.63916.

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Al-Dahwi, Sameer Salih Mahdi. "Investigating and Translating Formality in English Legal Texts into Arabic." Al-Adab Journal 1, no. 136 (2021): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v1i136.1157.

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Legal language is an unusual type of language which raises the interest of many people. It is considered to be one of the discourses that prefer traditional styles and values. Moreover, using this language is confined to specific places and circumstances, namely, in a court or legal texts. Additionally, legal language is radically different from ordinary language in vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics, in addition to other distinctive features. In fact, one of the predominant distinctive features of legal language is that it is a formal language. It is hypothesized that formality in

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Borisova, Lidia. "How plain is legal English in statutes?" Linguistica 53, no. 2 (2013): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.53.2.141-152.

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This article analyzes whether Plain English Campaign has influenced the language of British statutes. The author enumerates some requirements plain English in legislation should satisfy and compares to what extent, if any, the drafters of legislative texts have managed to satisfy these requirements. Special attention is paid to the mostcriticized features of statutes such as archaic words and the modal shall. Some other aspects analyzed in the article are the use of Voice, Tenses, syntax and organization of British statutes. The author provides examples illustrating the points stated, outlines

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Degtyareva, Ekaterina, and Nadezhda Kalmazova. "Means of Expressing Causality in Russian and English Legal Texts." Legal Linguistics, no. 35 (46) (April 1, 2025): 6–11. https://doi.org/10.14258/leglin(2025)3501.

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The article concentrates on the study of means of expressing causality in Russian and English legal texts. Legal texts are characterized by the use of different means which serve logical cohesion. Structures with semantics of reason are frequently employed. The sources for the research are Russian and English textbooks on Civil Procedure. Aanalysis of the lexical and grammatical means of expressing causality in Russian and English has been carried out. The article considers functional words and notional words with causative meaning. In both languages the category of notional words with causati

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DRINČIĆ, Goran. "TRANSLATING LEGAL TEXTS: COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS AS A TRANSLATION PROCEDURE." Lingua Montenegrina 6, no. 2 (2010): 63–74. https://doi.org/10.46584/lm.v6i2.175.

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Author deals with the issue of translating texts from the field of criminal law from English to Montenegrin and vice-versa. The focus is on English and Montenegrin lexis from the area of criminal procedure law. The main aim is to establish translation equivalents of relevant lexical items from this field, as well as to identify the best methods for overcoming the translation difficulties encountered in the process. For that purpose, different translation methods and procedures, semantic and componential analysis and other procedures were used.

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Iglesias-Rábade, Luis. "Some Lexical Collocational Patterns in Late Middle English Legal Texts." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 35 (December 31, 2007): 31–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20079698.

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The purpose of this study is to attempt to scrutinize the weight of collocations in legal late Middle English, and to show how they either specialized in this technical area or slipped into common speech. My analysis of the collocational framework in late Middle English legal texts tries to follow a lexical description based on the analysis of ‘collocation’ and ‘set’ as counterparts of ‘structure’ and ‘system’ in grammatical analysis, emphasizing the collocational structure rather than the rules that operate within the set. Two corpora were designed: a non-Technical Corpus was drafted from a b

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Hall, Charles. "From Legalized to Legal English: The Challenge of ESP." Armenian Folia Anglistika 1, no. 1-2 (1) (2005): 99–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2005.1.1-2.099.

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The English teaching of the students majoring in law will be more effective if it begins with legal texts not designed for specialists. This would enable the students to overcome the language-related difficulties in original legal texts and to make appropriate analysis.

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AVERIN, ARTYOM S. "LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH POPULAR LEGAL TEXTS: THEORY AND PRACTICE." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 4 (2020): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2020_6_4_5_15.

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The article describes the basic text features applied to a number of typical English popular legal texts. These include integrity, connectedness, continuity, pragmatic attitude, informativeness, completeness. Each feature is briefly described: integrity reflects the indissoluble connection of all elements of the text, connectedness refers to the internal semantic unity of the text and the continuity implies the input of new information into the existing semantic indissoluble chain of text, pragmatic attitude is a functional orientation of the author of the text to achieve specific objectives,

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Adel Nouri, Ahmed. "Analysis of the Style and Terminology Problems in Translating Legal Texts." Al-Adab Journal 1, no. 119 (2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v1i119.333.

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These days, Universities are interested a lot in the courses of translation to train and graduate competent and efficient translators. Mistakes in this field may be grievous, that is, translation errors on the job may lead to disasters. In chemical texts, they can cause fatal poisoning or terrible explosion, in aeronautics, they may bring a plane down from the sky on people's heads, and in legal translation, they can unlawfully make a defendant lose a crazily expensive law-suit. The poor performance of an interpreter can spoil the proceedings of a whole international conference. Thus, these po

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Rybina, N. V., N. Ye Koshil, and O. S. Hyryla. "LEGAL ENGLISH AND ADAPTED LEGAL TEXTS IN THE ASPECT OF TRANSLATION INTO UKRAINIAN." Тrаnscarpathian Philological Studies 2, no. 25 (2022): 121–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/tps2663-4880/2022.25.2.22.

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Dr. Yousif Ali Omer. "An Investigation into the Translation of General Power of Attorney Texts." Journal of Education College Wasit University 59, no. 1 (2025): 531–46. https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.vol59.iss1.4265.

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This study investigates the translation of specialized texts, with a particular focus on the legal domain, from English into Kurdish. More specifically, the English version of the General Power of Attorney genre and its Kurdish counterpart among legal texts are examined from both macro- and micro-translation analysis to identify issues that legal translators encounter while translating this text type. The macro-analysis explores certain essential aspects that help in achieving a deep understanding of this text type, emphasizing structural organization, function, and the legal and historical ba

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Berns, Margie, and Helmut Heil. "The use of English lexical items in German legal writings." American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 6, no. 2 (1994): 175–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1040820700001463.

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ABSTRACTThis article reports on a study of the extent and nature of the use of English loanwords in the writing of German legal professionals. A variety of texts are examined, showing that although the use of English loans is limited, their use across texts is essential for serving various pragmatic functions. The study demonstrates the value of systematic genre-based studies in contributing to a general description of English loan use among speakers of German.

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Nhac, Thanh-Huong. "Learners’ Obstacles in the Translation of Legal Texts Between English and Vietnamese." International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies 4, no. 4 (2023): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlts.v4i4.388.

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Legal translation, also defined as the rendering of legal texts from the source language (SL) into the target language (Cao, 2007), is deemed as one of the most rigorous translation fields due to the distinctive, culture-specific and culture-sensitive features of legal language in different law areas (Alcaraz & Hughes, 2014). Undeniably, such wide divergence has imposed great difficulties on learners and practitioners, which attracted attention from educators and scholars for the last decade. Yet, there still exists a limited number of research on this issue. Therefore, the focal aim of th

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Mohammad, Ammar Farhan, and Yasir Younis Al-Badrany. "Achieving Equal Authenticity in Translating Legal Texts." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 8, no. 3 (2024): 277–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/lang.8.3.15.

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This paper investigates the concept of "Equal Authenticity in Legal Translation" and explores the nature, strategies, and skills crucial for translators to successfully produce such equally authentic texts from English –Arabic or vice versa. The focus of this study is on the significant features that constitute legal texts, providing an examination of various categories of legal documents prevalent in diverse contexts. Through a detailed descriptive analysis, the paper illustrates the noteworthy effectiveness of these categories and demonstrates how legal translators can apply their skills to

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Inphen, Wiriya. "The Modal Verb ‘Shall’ in English Translations of Thai Legal Texts: The Plain Legal English Point of View." rEFLections 31, no. 3 (2024): 1104–19. https://doi.org/10.61508/refl.v31i3.277251.

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This study was designed to investigate the translation of laws from Thai into English with a focus on the use of modal ‘shall’ in the translations. As the trend of plain legal English continues to rise in the contemporary legal environment, some legal practitioners – lawyers, judges and legal drafters – have perceived that the use of the modal verb ‘shall’ (or the modal ‘shall’) may seem inappropriate and even to some extent, unclear in legal texts. Observing this phenomenon ultimately led to the formation of this study, and in following this line of argument, the research focuses on the exten

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Rashed Alkatheery, Eman. "Google Translate Errors in Legal Texts: Machine Translation Quality Assessment." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 7, no. 1 (2023): 208–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol7no1.16.

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Machine translation received intensive research in different language pairs; yet, the quality of specialized translation; e.g., legal translation, from Arabic into English received little attention. The present study investigates the quality of machine translation of legal texts from Arabic into English. The paper aims at examining the errors found in the machine translation of legal texts from Arabic into English. It also studies the legal discourse features in machine-translation output. The research questions tackle the accuracy of machine translation of legal discourse and error categories

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Setkowicz-Ryszka, Anna. "Supporting legal scholars’ efforts to communicate in English as a lingua franca in a globalised world." MonTI. Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación, no. 16 (May 31, 2024): 354–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/monti.2024.16.11.

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This article examines problems encountered in revising legal academic texts translated into English or written in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) by legal scholars themselves. It starts by discussing globalisation and the rise of ELF in general and specifically in law and academia, considering the importance of publishing in English for individuals and academic journals. This is followed by a presentation of the Polish perspective on globalisation, as well as the challenges of revising academic legal writing. Specific examples are provided from the author’s professional experience in revising

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Almjlad, Sultan. "Analysing Legal Discourse to Understand the Difficulties in the Translation of Legal Documents from English into Arabic." Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, no. 34 (December 30, 2024): 174–83. https://doi.org/10.54940/ll37688523.

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The study aimed to investigate the grammatical and lexical characteristics of legal translation from English to Arabic. It utilized a critical evaluation approach to identify the challenges, both grammatical and lexical, encountered in legal discourse. Furthermore, it conducted a comprehensive review of the key challenges faced by legal translators when translating legal texts between English and Arabic, as well as vice versa. These challenges significantly contribute to the complexity of understanding and translating legal language. Through this evaluative study, the underlying complexities a

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Jumanca, Romaniţa. "Types of Metaphors in The English Legal Discourse." Romanian Journal of English Studies 9, no. 1 (2012): 366–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0032-9.

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Abstract The main purpose of my paper is that of analyzing English legal discourse and legal texts belonging to different genres within the same subject field, in this case legal English, from the point of view of the variety of metaphors it consists of. Metaphor represents one among many other elements of legal discourse.

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Sopjani, Valentina, and Vjosa Hamiti. "Challenges in the translation of legal texts: the case in Kosovo." Comparative Legilinguistics 52 (January 9, 2023): 351–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/cl.52.2022.15.

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Our paper conducts a contrastive analysis between Albanian and English lexical units in the language of laws using corpora analysis. It fills a literature gap related to Corpus linguistics in order to better comprehend patterns of legal lexicon. We use KWIC Concordance to extract the top frequently words and concordance lines in order to analyse differences and similarities among lexical units in Albanian (Source Language) and English (Target Language) laws, compared to those identified in respective corpora. Additionally, we identify types of errors in translation, difficulties in translating

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Kit, Chunyu, Jonathan J. Webster, King-Kui Sin, Haihua Pan, and Heng Li. "Clause alignment for Hong Kong legal texts." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9, no. 1 (2004): 29–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.9.1.02kit.

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In this paper we report on our recent work in clause alignment for English-Chinese bilingual legal texts using available lexical resources including a bilingual legal glossary and a bilingual dictionary, for the purpose of acquiring examples at various linguistic levels for example-based machine translation. We present our formulation of an appropriate measure for the similarity of a candidate pair of clauses with respect to matched lexical items and the corresponding implementation of an effective algorithm for clause alignment based on this similarity measure. Experimental results show that

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Kurchinskaya-Grasso, Natalia. "The problematic of translation of legal texts." Филология: научные исследования, no. 1 (January 2020): 66–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2020.1.31362.

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This article explores the translation of legal texts, as it is usually fraught with a variety of challenges of linguistic and extralinguistic nature. The translator must have a strong command of linguistics, translation skills and profound knowledge of national and international criminal-procedural of civil-procedural law. &nbsp;Focus is made on the one hand on determination of typology of general linguistic and translation problems pertaining to legal documents, and on the other &ndash; on identification of peculiarities of these problems depending on qualification of a specialist doi

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Zhang, Pengbin, and Guifang Wang. "Research on Translation Path of Chinese Legal Texts." International Journal of Education and Humanities 12, no. 2 (2024): 259–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/v3ekws68.

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This paper aims to explore the translation path of Chinese legal texts from the perspective of translation studies, taking into account the cultural, linguistic, and legal contexts. The study begins by introducing the concept of Chinese legal texts and their unique characteristics. It then examines the theoretical underpinnings of translation studies, with a focus on the concept of equivalence and the different translation methods. The paper then analyzes the challenges and strategies involved in translating Chinese legal texts into English, considering factors such as cultural differences, le

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Jumanca, Romaniţa. "The Role of Personifying Metaphors in English and Romanian Legal Texts." Romanian Journal of English Studies 13, no. 1 (2016): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0018.

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Abstract This paper attempts to carry out an analysis of metaphors in a corpus of legal documents, within the theoretical framework of the cognitive metaphor theory as conceived by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). There is a notable use of conceptual metaphors and framings in the law we live by which, undoubtedly, have a major impact on the way millions of people in the world act and react in their attempt of decoding legal messages. Since metaphors are basically cognitive constructs, their meaning can be grasped only through a process of transfer of significance from a source domain to a target one

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Williams, Christopher. "Is legal English “going European”? The case of the simple present." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 58, no. 1 (2013): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100002541.

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AbstractIn many countries in continental Europe the simple present is extensively used in main clauses in legislative texts to express obligation. Several English-speaking legal systems have witnessed an increased usage of the simple present in legal English over the last few decades, largely at the expense of shall. I examine the continuing debate among law scholars and writers of legal drafting manuals over the adoption of the simple present in prescriptive texts in English. I conclude by observing that the decision in some countries to do away with shall would appear to be linked principall

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Golev, Nikolai, and Anna Irkova. "Semantic Diffusion of Legal and Near-Legal Terms as a Practical and Research Problem." Legal Linguistics, no. 27(38) (April 1, 2023): 44–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/leglin(2023)2708.

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The semantic diffusion of the lexicon of law as a factor of the multiplicity of their interpretations is studied. The texts of the federal and regional levels in the field of ecology and tourism are considered using digital methods (reverse translation into English and Chinese; a program for comparing texts for similarity). The dissimilarity zones, equivalents, synonyms are shown. The relationship between the degree of complexity and the percentage of similarity of the original and the reverse machine translation is established.

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Mustafa, Abu Baker Khalid, and Alaa Hasan Abdullah. "Misusing the Translation of Arabic Legal Obligatory Terms into English." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 6, no. 1 (2022): 370–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.1.22.

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In some legal provisions, a great majority of obligation is used implicitly in Arabic particularly within legal texts. Most translators try to convey the explicit meaning neglecting the implicit one when translating. Moreover, for the urgent need to configure the legal text and grasp the surrounding meaning through employing the obligatory terms. We focus, in this research, on the possibility of using these phrases, which are implicitly existed in the Arabic language texts through avoiding the mistakes that give rise to mistranslation which may change the text status from mandatory to optional

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Gailan Mahmoud Hussein. "Applying Skopos Theory in Translating Excerpts of Iraqi Court Decisions into English - A Case Study." مجلة آداب الفراهيدي 15, no. 53 (2023): 561–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.51990/jaa.15.53.3.25.

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This study aims at investigating the application of Skopos theory in translating Iraqi legal texts and how these texts achieve the translational action to achieve the legal purpose when translated into English. Skopos theory is the main focus in this study. It is used to show how the meaning of these texts are conveyed from Arabic into English through preserving their functions and purposes in comparable texts and perform these functions to produce the same impact in the target text readers. This study hypothesizes that the translators who studied two courses of legal translation are able to m

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Lakić, Igor. "SYNTACTIC AND LEXICAL ASPECTS OF STUDENTS’ LEGAL TRANSLATIONS AT THE POSTGRADUATE LEVEL." Folia linguistica et litteraria XI, no. 33 (2020): 189–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902//fll.33.2020.10.

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Teaching translation of legal texts into English at the postgraduate level at the Faculty of Philology (formerly at the Institute of Foreign Languages), University of Montenegro, started in 2004. At this study programme, students face for the first time challenges of translating legal texts. Although they occasionally translate some legal texts at the undergraduate level, this is the first time that they study legal translation in a systematic way. This certainly produces some challenges, that may be mainly observed on two levels: (1) syntactic level, where some students produce English senten

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Lakić, Igor. "SYNTACTIC AND LEXICAL ASPECTS OF STUDENTS’ LEGAL TRANSLATIONS AT THE POSTGRADUATE LEVEL." Folia linguistica et litteraria XI, no. 33 (2020): 189–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902//fll.33.2020.10.

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Teaching translation of legal texts into English at the postgraduate level at the Faculty of Philology (formerly at the Institute of Foreign Languages), University of Montenegro, started in 2004. At this study programme, students face for the first time challenges of translating legal texts. Although they occasionally translate some legal texts at the undergraduate level, this is the first time that they study legal translation in a systematic way. This certainly produces some challenges, that may be mainly observed on two levels: (1) syntactic level, where some students produce English senten

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Mosesova, Milana, and Tatyana Shiryaeva. "Verbalization of Performative Units in English Texts of International Conventions: Morphological Aspect." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 5 (January 2021): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2020.5.10.

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The article presents the results of a study devoted to the analysis of the morphological features of the texts of international conventions operating within the English legal discourse. Close attention is paid to the characteristics of the main language means by which the aspect of performativity is actualized in legal context. The texts of international conventions relating to various special areas of the life of society comprise the material of the study. The analysis of empirical material has enabled the authors to identify the most frequent models of performative units in the texts of inte

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Kalinovskaya, V. V. "Phraseology in the Legal English Discourse." Courier of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)), no. 10 (January 17, 2022): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2021.86.10.069-073.

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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the functioning of phraseological units in legal discourse. Phraseological units are an important part of many legal texts, for example, court decisions. English phraseological units in legal discourse play a very important role: they denote legal concepts, carry information of a cultural and legal nature, have a significant impact on the recipient of information. The study of phraseological units in this area contributes to a deeper understanding of representatives of different cultures and speakers of different languages. Phraseological units ar

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Huang, Jiaqi, and Guifang Wang. "A Study on Translation Strategies of Legal English Texts from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory." Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 7 (2024): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/pycvvc29.

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Legal translation is a compound discipline, which involves knowledge of different subject areas. From the perspective of the functional equivalence theory proposed by Nida, this paper will explore the equivalence of legal texts from the four levels of vocabulary, syntax, text and style respectively, aiming at summarizing the main strategies for translating legal English texts, so as to provide translation ideas in legal translation practice.

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